Those of you who come here looking for what I’m going to say next have likely been eagerly anticipating my response to (current White House) Resident Bush’s State of the Union speech.
Your wait is over.
Continue reading ‘State of the Union’
Monthly Archive for January, 2003
I happened upon an interesting program the other night called The Active Opposition. It was a panel discussion moderated by Peter Coyote discussing the United States and our presence and probable use of military force against Iraq to remove the current regime. Actor Sean Penn along with journalists, humanitarians and even former CIA intelligence analysts provide their views on the pending violence.
Several things in this episode got me thinking. Then yesterday I read that France and Germany were strongly opposing any U.S. military action, while Colin Powell stated basically that the U.S. can and will, if need be, act alone. The U.S. doesn’t need the approval of the international community.
This all reminds me of a statement made by Hober Mallow in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation, "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
Continue reading ‘If it’s not MetaphysX… it’s CRAP!’
I love that slogan generator!
After being sick almost all weekend (me and my computer), we’re both back in normal operating order. However, I have once again succombed to the evil that is Microsoft.
Rather than go through the hell of setting up FreeBSD again, I did some research and am going to try something different. This time, rather than run FreeBSD and then try to get all of my wicked-cool multimedia and Windows-based apps running on it, I’m going the opposite route. This time I’m going to run WinXP as my primary OS with Cygwin (a Unix/Linux emulator), which will hopefully allow me to run the few Unix-apps I want to run (namely, GNUCash).
… having waited a few hours for life to evolve to the point of inventing cigarrettes, coffee and commercial television, had stopped off at planet Bookoo for gas. He was now on his way to seek adventure… somewhere.
Unbeknownst (I’m pretty sure that’s a word) to Brad (our hero, aka "Fred") life on Bookoo had coincidently evolved, though quite a bit faster, exactly as it did on his home planet of Hell (which is similar in almost all respects to my home town of Shelbyville, Indiana). As Brad pulled away from Bookoo, full of gas and in search of adventure on his holiday, so did a duplicate of himself, named Brad (this will be confusing I’m sure), from the planet Bookoo.
If you need a slogan for something, might I suggest The Slogan Generator.
I went to see the Pacers play against the Miami Heat last night. It was fun, though the Pacers kept a steady 20 point lead throughout most of the game. My friend Martha and I drove up together, and after the half, she started feeling ill, so we took off after the 3rd period.
Continue reading ‘Promise her anything, but give her Metaphysx.’
YES!! I made it! They posted my story (and pics) to the "Show Me Your Wound" website at www.showmeyourwound.com. Check the article entitled "I Fought the Highway…".
Millions and millions of years ago, large vertibrates roamed the Earth and ate plants and sometimes each other. Eventually, these animals and plants died.
Millions and millions of years passed, and various natural processes turned these animals and plants into a thick, black sludge that, today, we call oil.
One day, these hairless monkeys, who now were the dominant species on Earth, developed a means for seperating classes of monkeys based on how many little green slips of paper they had. The monkeys with a lot of green slips of paper were called rich and powerful. Those monkeys with less, well, they didn’t really matter much.
Continue reading ‘The Story of the Earth’
If you found the previous post interesting at all, you’re a geek.
However, as I mentioned, I truly have found things to be a bit uinteresting lately. So, I’m seriously considering doing what I set out to do when I started this adventure I call "life". Originally, I wanted to be a philosophy professor. A little thing called "being young and stupid and getting married at 22" steered me into making a career out of a hobby. However, I can’t let the knowledge I’ve acquired go to waste. Luckily there is a field just for me: cognitive science.
Anyway, to make a long story as short as I can, I was looking at some resources in artificial intelligence research and found some cool stuff at MIT. The best one is the <a href="http://teach-computers.org/learner.html" target=_new">Open Mind: 1001 Questions project. Basically, you tell the computer about something. You pick a topic and it asks you some questions about it. Then you tell it a few things about something new. The more it learns, the more intelligent questions it asks. The object is to teach it all about things that a normal computer sitting on a desk somewhere without much interraction with the world we humans live in, would never have the chance to learn (like God, for example). Very cool stuff.
Yes, the world has again become uninteresting. I am therefore forced to invent my own personal catastrophe that will present harrowing challenges to be overcome. What kind of hell have I thrown myself headlong into this time?
I am doing my best to become Microsoft-free.
I’ve decided to never get married again. It’s such a waste of time and resources. Intead, I’m going to skip all the ceremony. I’ll just find a woman that hates me, buy her a house, give her half my money and call it a day.
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